G/TBT/N/USA/1799/Add.1  
 
20 December  2021 
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  17 December 2021 , is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the United States of America . 
 
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Title: Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Cooking Products  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[X] Comment period changed - date:  18 January 2022  
[  ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[  ] Notified measure published - date:  
[  ] Notified measure enters into force - date:  
[  ] Text of final measure available from1:  
[  ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[  ] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
[  ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[X] Other: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-12-16/html/2021 -27136.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-12-16/pdf/2021 -27136.pdf  
https://members.wto .org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/USA/21_7901_00_e.pdf  
Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of public comment period and notification of 
data availability (NODA)  
 
Description:  TITLE: Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Cooking Products  
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of  Energy  
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of public comment  period and notification of data 
availability   (NODA)  
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is extending the public  comment period for the 
notice of proposed rulemaking ("NOPR") that  DOE published on 4 November 2021 regarding a 
proposal for a new test  procedure for conventional cooking  tops, a category of cooking  products, 
that would replace the procedure that DOE withdrew on 18 August  2020. DOE is also publishing a 
NODA regarding the results of DOE's  recently completed test program assessing the repeatability 
 
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  and reproducibility of the  proposed test procedure. DOE is publishing the  results of its testing and 
requests comment, data, and information  regarding the results.   
DATES: The comment period for the NOPR which published on 4 November 2021 (86 FR 60974), is 
extended. DOE will accept  comments, data, and  information regarding the NOPR and NODA on or 
before 18 January 2022.  
This notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of public comment period and notification of data 
availability (NODA) and the notice of proposed rulemaking and announc ement of public meeting 
notified as G/TBT/N/USA/1799  are identified by Docket Number EERE -2021-BT-TP-0023. The Docket 
Folder is available on Regulations.gov at  https://www.regulatio ns.gov/docket/EERE -2021-BT-TP-
0023/document  and provides access to primary documents as well as comments received. 
Documents are also accessible from  Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number. WTO 
Members and their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the  USA TBT Enquiry Point  by or 
before 4pm Eastern Time  on 18 January 2022.  Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point 
from WTO Members and their stakeholders will be shared with the regulator and will also be 
submitted to the  Docket  on Regulations.gov if received within the comment period.  
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